Posted April 14, 2021
This piece was originally featured on the IRC blog.
By Monte Achenbach, Chief of Party, USAID Transform WASH, PSI with contributions from Ephraim Mebrate, Tsegaye Yeshiwas, Ayatam Simeneh, and Dagim Demirew.
A design competition initiative of USAID Transform WASH
The simple act of properly washing hands with soap is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions. This is particularly true of the fight against transmission of Covid-19. Yet the most recent national data show that only eight percent of Ethiopian households have access to a basic handwashing facility with 40 percent lacking any facility at all (JMP 2017).
Following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, public awareness campaigns have resulted in growing demand for household and institutional handwashing stations. A rapid market assessment conducted by USAID Transform WASH (T/WASH) found that few reasonably priced products existed for customers to buy
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The highly indebted government of Ethiopia announces the appointment of a new governor for the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), financial sector regulatory body of the country.
The long serving governor of NBE Teklewold Atnafu is now replaced by the former Commissioner for the National Planning under the rank of minister, Yinager Dessie (PhD).
A few days before the announcement of his appointment, Dr. Yinager who appeared on state broadcaster ETV for one-on-one interview, has indicated that Ethiopia’s foreign loan has reached $26 billion.
He further indicated that the fact that Ethiopia is expected to payback $6 billion of its loan in the coming two years and the ongoing mega projects of the government require $7 billion. These are among the factors that has forced the country recently to decide the partial privatization of the major state enterprises such as Ethiopian Airlines, Ethio telecom, Ethiopian Shipping Lines and Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, ac